The Jay Sanders Film Lecture with Travis Vogan | “ESPN and Film Culture”

The 2016 Jay Sanders Film Lecture will be held on Thursday, March 3 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum auditorium at 7:00 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public.

This year’s speaker is Dr. Travis Vogan (University of Iowa), who will give a talk entitled “ESPN and Film Culture.” Additionally, Dr. Vogan will guest lecture in three classes in the School of Communication & Journalism.

Travis Vogan is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of sports, film, media and culture. Vogan is the author of Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire (University of Illinois Press, 2015).

Beyond his books, Vogan has published research in Convergence, Journal of Sport History, Communication & Sport, Popular Communication, The Moving Image, Digital Journalism, International Journal of Sport Communication, and other venues.

He is co-editor of the University of Illinois Press book series Studies in Sports Media and is currently serving as the Film, Media, and Museum Reviews editor for Journal of Sport History.

Dr. Vogan’s visit is sponsored by the School of Communication & Journalism and the Jule Collins Smith Museum.